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| Home / College Guide / The Irreconcilable Versions of J.D. Vance - Politics and Other Controversies -De |
| Posted on Thursday, August 01 @ 00:00:06 PDT |
This is interesting, especially if you consider it in the light of Republicans when they went after John Kerry for supposedly flip-flopping.
The Irreconcilable Versions of J.D. Vance in ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
J.D. Vance became the Republican vice-presidential nominee on Wednesday, running with a man he once speculated could be “America’s Hitler.”
Even before the Republican vice-presidential nominee aligned himself with Donald Trump, contradiction was central to his rags-to-riches biography.
Old friends and former classmates have expressed bewilderment at the seemingly irreconcilable versions of Mr. Vance. But contradiction has been central to Mr. Vance’s biography, nowhere more so than in his popular 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.”
Even within the book, Mr. Vance’s biography contains a yin-and-yang quality. He described being raised in an Appalachian family fractured by drugs, violence and poverty that had relocated to “an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.” Yet he somehow managed to escape the gravitational pull of his chaotic clan to join the Marines, get a college degree and attend Yale Law School.
At the same time, his struggling friends and relatives in Ohio, with whom he expressed solidarity and a degree of sympathy, were not spared his often acerbic observations about laziness, bigotry and domestic abuse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/u...lly-elegy.html
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